Courtyards, Markets, City Streets : Urban Women In Africa / by Kathleen Sheldon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sheldon, Kathleen, author.

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban women--Africa.

Urban women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 342 p. ) map ;

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, 2018.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Although women have long been active residents in African cities, explorations of their contributions have been marginal. This volume brings women into the center of the urban landscape, using case studies to illustrate how womens work in trade and agriculture has been the foundation of African urbanization. Chapters focus on patterns of migration and urbanization, womens employment in varied activities from selling crafts to managing small businesses, the emergence of complex new family formations, and participation in community and political activities. Although women have long been active residents in African cities, explorations of their contributions have been marginal. This volume brings women into the center of the urban landscape, using case studies to illustrate their contributions to family, community, work, and political life.The book begins with a rich introduction that discusses how womens work in trade and agriculture has been the foundation of African urbanization. The contributors then focus on patterns of migration and urbanization, with an emphasis on the personal and social issues that influence the decision to migrate from rural areas; womens employment in varied activities from selling crafts to managing small businesses; the sometimes unavoidable practice of prostitution when options are limited ; the emergence of complex new family formations deriving from access to courts and the continued strength of polygyny; and womens participation in community and political activities. The volume includes material from all regions of sub-Saharan Africa and brings together scholars from all the social sciences.

Contents:

Part 1: Introduction.

Urban African women: courtyards, markets, city streets / Kathleen Sheldon

Part 2: Migration and urbanization.

South African women and migration in Umtata, Transkei, 1800-1935 / Sean Redding

Transitions in Kenyan patriarchy: attempts to control Nairobi area traders, 1920-1963 / Claire C. Robertson

Three generations of Hausa women in Kaduna, Nigeria, 1925-1985 / Catherine M. Coles

Part 3: Courtyards: marriage, family, and housing.

Washing dirty laundry in public: local courts, custom, and gender relations in postcolonial Lusaka / Karen Tranberg Hansen

Can polygyny be avoided in Dakar? / Philippe Antoine and Jeanne Nanitelamio

Health, gender relations, and poverty in the AIDS era / Brooke Grundfest Schoepf

Moving and coping: women tenants in Gweru, Zimbabwe / Miriam Grant

Part 4: Markets: work and survival.

Women in business: class and Nairobi's small and medium-sized producers / Dorothy McCormick

Beyone simple survival: women microentrepreneurs in Harare and Bulawayo, Zimbabwe / Mary Johnson Osirim

Prostitution, a petit-métier during economic crisis: a road to women's liberation? The case of Cameroon / Paulette Beat Songue

Part 5: City streets: politics and community.

'I am with you as never before': women in urban protest movements, Alexandra Township, South Africa, 1912-1945 / John Nauright

Urban women's movements and political liberalization in East Africa / Aili Mari Tripp.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780367315252

0367315254

9780429980879

0429980876

9780429969799

0429969791

9780429501241

0429501242

OCLC:

298105055

Publisher Number:

2027/heb04144 hdl